Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung (KDE), EECS, Universität Kassel

Das Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung des Fachbereichs Elektrotechnik/Informatik forscht an der Entwicklung von Methoden zur Wissensentdeckung und Wissensrepräsentation (Approximation und Exploration von Wissen, Ordnungsstrukturen in Wissen, Ontologieentwicklung) in Daten als auch in der Analyse von (sozialen) Netzwerkdaten und damit verbundenen Wissensprozessen (Metriken in Netzwerken, Anomalieerkennung, Charakterisierung von sozialen Netzwerken). Dabei liegt ein Schwerpunkt auf der exakten algebraischen Modellierung der verwendeten Strukturen und auf der Evaluierung und Neuentwicklung von Netzwerkmaßen. Neben der Erforschung von Grundlagen in den Gebieten Ordnungs- und Verbandstheorie, Beschreibungslogiken, Graphentheorie und Ontologie werden auch Anwendungen – bspw. in sozialen Medien sowie in der Szientometrie – erforscht.

Das Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung ist Mitglied im Wissenschaftlichen Zentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltung (ITeG) der Universität Kassel, im Wissenschaftlichen Zentrum INCHER der Universität Kassel und im Hessischen KI-Zentrum (hessian.AI).

Unsere neusten Publikationen

• 1.

  Draude, C., Engert, S., Hess, T., Hirth, J., Horn, V., Kropf, J., Lamla, J., Stumme, G., Uhlmann, M., Zwingmann, N.: Verrechnung – Design – Kultivierung: Instrumentenkasten für die Gestaltung fairer Geschäftsmodelle durch Ko-Valuation, https://plattform-privatheit.de/p-prv-wAssets/Assets/Veroeffentlichungen_WhitePaper_PolicyPaper/whitepaper/WP_2024_FAIRDIENSTE_1.0.pdf, (2024). https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-2497.

  URLBibTeXEndNoteDOI

  @misc{claude2024verrechnung,
  address = {Karlsruhe},
  author = {Draude, Claude and Engert, Simon and Hess, Thomas and Hirth, Johannes and Horn, Viktoria and Kropf, Jonathan and Lamla, Jörn and Stumme, Gerd and Uhlmann, Markus and Zwingmann, Nina},
  edition = 1,
  editor = {Friedewald, Michael and Roßnagel, Alexander and Geminn, Christian and Karaboga, Murat},
  howpublished = {White Paper},
  keywords = {itegpub},
  month = {03},
  publisher = {Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI},
  series = {Plattform Privatheit},
  title = {Verrechnung – Design – Kultivierung: Instrumentenkasten für die Gestaltung fairer Geschäftsmodelle durch Ko-Valuation},
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Generic
  %1 claude2024verrechnung
  %A Draude, Claude
  %A Engert, Simon
  %A Hess, Thomas
  %A Hirth, Johannes
  %A Horn, Viktoria
  %A Kropf, Jonathan
  %A Lamla, Jörn
  %A Stumme, Gerd
  %A Uhlmann, Markus
  %A Zwingmann, Nina
  %B Plattform Privatheit
  %C Karlsruhe
  %D 2024
  %E Friedewald, Michael
  %E Roßnagel, Alexander
  %E Geminn, Christian
  %E Karaboga, Murat
  %I Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI
  %R 10.24406/publica-2497
  %T Verrechnung – Design – Kultivierung: Instrumentenkasten für die Gestaltung fairer Geschäftsmodelle durch Ko-Valuation
  %U https://plattform-privatheit.de/p-prv-wAssets/Assets/Veroeffentlichungen_WhitePaper_PolicyPaper/whitepaper/WP_2024_FAIRDIENSTE_1.0.pdf
  %7 1
  

• 1.

  Hanika, T., Hille, T.: What is the intrinsic dimension of your binary data? -- and how to compute it quickly, (2024).

  BibTeXEndNote

  @misc{hanika2024textitintrinsic,
  author = {Hanika, Tom and Hille, Tobias},
  keywords = {itegpub},
  title = {What is the intrinsic dimension of your binary data? -- and how to compute it quickly},
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Generic
  %1 hanika2024textitintrinsic
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %A Hille, Tobias
  %D 2024
  %T What is the intrinsic dimension of your binary data? -- and how to compute it quickly
  

• 1.

  Hirth, J., Horn, V., Stumme, G., Hanika, T.: Ordinal motifs in lattices. Information Sciences. 659, 120009 (2024). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2023.120009.

  URLBibTeXEndNoteDOI

  @article{HIRTH2024120009,
  author = {Hirth, Johannes and Horn, Viktoria and Stumme, Gerd and Hanika, Tom},
  journal = {Information Sciences},
  keywords = {itegpub},
  pages = 120009,
  title = {Ordinal motifs in lattices},
  volume = 659,
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Journal Article
  %1 HIRTH2024120009
  %A Hirth, Johannes
  %A Horn, Viktoria
  %A Stumme, Gerd
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %D 2024
  %J Information Sciences
  %P 120009
  %R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2023.120009
  %T Ordinal motifs in lattices
  %U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025523015943
  %V 659
  

• 1.

  Abdulla, M., Hirth, J., Stumme, G.: The Birkhoff completion of finite lattices, (2024).

  BibTeXEndNote

  @misc{abdulla2024birkhoff,
  author = {Abdulla, Mohammad and Hirth, Johannes and Stumme, Gerd},
  keywords = {fca},
  title = {The Birkhoff completion of finite lattices},
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Generic
  %1 abdulla2024birkhoff
  %A Abdulla, Mohammad
  %A Hirth, Johannes
  %A Stumme, Gerd
  %D 2024
  %T The Birkhoff completion of finite lattices
  

• 1.

  Hanika, T., Jäschke, R.: A Repository for Formal Contexts. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (2024).

  URLBibTeXEndNote

  Data is always at the center of the theoretical development and investigation of the applicability of formal concept analysis. It is therefore not surprising that a large number of data sets are repeatedly used in scholarly articles and software tools, acting as de facto standard data sets. However, the distribution of the data sets poses a problem for the sustainable development of the research field. There is a lack of a central location that provides and describes FCA data sets and links them to already known analysis results. This article analyses the current state of the dissemination of FCA data sets, presents the requirements for a central FCA repository, and highlights the challenges for this.

  @inproceedings{hanika2024repository,
  abstract = {Data is always at the center of the theoretical development and investigation of the applicability of formal concept analysis. It is therefore not surprising that a large number of data sets are repeatedly used in scholarly articles and software tools, acting as de facto standard data sets. However, the distribution of the data sets poses a problem for the sustainable development of the research field. There is a lack of a central location that provides and describes FCA data sets and links them to already known analysis results. This article analyses the current state of the dissemination of FCA data sets, presents the requirements for a central FCA repository, and highlights the challenges for this.},
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  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures},
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  title = {A Repository for Formal Contexts},
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  }
  

  %0 Conference Paper
  %1 hanika2024repository
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %A Jäschke, Robert
  %B Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures
  %D 2024
  %T A Repository for Formal Contexts
  %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04344
  %X Data is always at the center of the theoretical development and investigation of the applicability of formal concept analysis. It is therefore not surprising that a large number of data sets are repeatedly used in scholarly articles and software tools, acting as de facto standard data sets. However, the distribution of the data sets poses a problem for the sustainable development of the research field. There is a lack of a central location that provides and describes FCA data sets and links them to already known analysis results. This article analyses the current state of the dissemination of FCA data sets, presents the requirements for a central FCA repository, and highlights the challenges for this.
  

• 1.

  Hille, T., Stubbemann, M., Hanika, T.: Reproducibility and Geometric Intrinsic Dimensionality: An Investigation on Graph Neural Network Research, (2024).

  BibTeXEndNote

  @preprint{hille2024reproducibility,
  author = {Hille, Tobias and Stubbemann, Maximilian and Hanika, Tom},
  keywords = {kde},
  title = {Reproducibility and Geometric Intrinsic Dimensionality: An Investigation on Graph Neural Network Research},
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Generic
  %1 hille2024reproducibility
  %A Hille, Tobias
  %A Stubbemann, Maximilian
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %D 2024
  %T Reproducibility and Geometric Intrinsic Dimensionality: An Investigation on Graph Neural Network Research
  

• 1.

  Hirth, J., Hanika, T.: The Geometric Structure of Topic Models, (2024). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2403.03607.

  BibTeXEndNoteDOI

  @misc{hirth2024geometric,
  author = {Hirth, Johannes and Hanika, Tom},
  keywords = {selected},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  title = {The Geometric Structure of Topic Models},
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Generic
  %1 hirth2024geometric
  %A Hirth, Johannes
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %D 2024
  %I arXiv
  %R 10.48550/arxiv.2403.03607
  %T The Geometric Structure of Topic Models
  

• 1.

  Dürrschnabel, D., Priss, U.: Realizability of Rectangular Euler Diagrams, (2024).

  BibTeXEndNote

  @misc{dürrschnabel2024realizability,
  author = {Dürrschnabel, Dominik and Priss, Uta},
  keywords = {itegpub},
  title = {Realizability of Rectangular Euler Diagrams},
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Generic
  %1 dürrschnabel2024realizability
  %A Dürrschnabel, Dominik
  %A Priss, Uta
  %D 2024
  %T Realizability of Rectangular Euler Diagrams
  

• 1.

  Draude, C., Dürrschnabel, D., Hirth, J., Horn, V., Kropf, J., Lamla, J., Stumme, G., Uhlmann, M.: Conceptual Mapping of Controversies, (2024).

  BibTeXEndNote

  With our work, we contribute towards a qualitative analysis of the discourse on controversies in online news media. For this, we employ Formal Concept Analysis and the economics of conventions to derive conceptual controversy maps. In our experiments, we analyze two maps from different news journals with methods from ordinal data science. We show how these methods can be used to assess the diversity, complexity and potential bias of controversies. In addition to that, we discuss how the diagrams of concept lattices can be used to navigate between news articles

  @misc{draude2024conceptual,
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  author = {Draude, Claude and Dürrschnabel, Dominik and Hirth, Johannes and Horn, Viktoria and Kropf, Jonathan and Lamla, Jörn and Stumme, Gerd and Uhlmann, Markus},
  keywords = {itegpub},
  title = {Conceptual Mapping of Controversies},
  year = 2024
  }
  

  %0 Generic
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  %A Draude, Claude
  %A Dürrschnabel, Dominik
  %A Hirth, Johannes
  %A Horn, Viktoria
  %A Kropf, Jonathan
  %A Lamla, Jörn
  %A Stumme, Gerd
  %A Uhlmann, Markus
  %D 2024
  %T Conceptual Mapping of Controversies
  %X With our work, we contribute towards a qualitative analysis of the discourse on controversies in online news media. For this, we employ Formal Concept Analysis and the economics of conventions to derive conceptual controversy maps. In our experiments, we analyze two maps from different news journals with methods from ordinal data science. We show how these methods can be used to assess the diversity, complexity and potential bias of controversies. In addition to that, we discuss how the diagrams of concept lattices can be used to navigate between news articles
  

• 1.

  Hirth, J., Horn, V., Stumme, G., Hanika, T.: Ordinal Motifs in Lattices, https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04827, (2023).

  URLBibTeXEndNote

  Lattices are a commonly used structure for the representation and analysis of relational and ontological knowledge. In particular, the analysis of these requires a decomposition of a large and high-dimensional lattice into a set of understandably large parts. With the present work we propose /ordinal motifs/ as analytical units of meaning. We study these ordinal substructures (or standard scales) through (full) scale-measures of formal contexts from the field of formal concept analysis. We show that the underlying decision problems are NP-complete and provide results on how one can incrementally identify ordinal motifs to save computational effort. Accompanying our theoretical results, we demonstrate how ordinal motifs can be leveraged to retrieve basic meaning from a medium sized ordinal data set.

  @misc{hirth2023ordinal,
  abstract = {Lattices are a commonly used structure for the representation and analysis of relational and ontological knowledge. In particular, the analysis of these requires a decomposition of a large and high-dimensional lattice into a set of understandably large parts. With the present work we propose /ordinal motifs/ as analytical units of meaning. We study these ordinal substructures (or standard scales) through (full) scale-measures of formal contexts from the field of formal concept analysis. We show that the underlying decision problems are NP-complete and provide results on how one can incrementally identify ordinal motifs to save computational effort. Accompanying our theoretical results, we demonstrate how ordinal motifs can be leveraged to retrieve basic meaning from a medium sized ordinal data set.},
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  %0 Generic
  %1 hirth2023ordinal
  %A Hirth, Johannes
  %A Horn, Viktoria
  %A Stumme, Gerd
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %D 2023
  %T Ordinal Motifs in Lattices
  %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04827
  %X Lattices are a commonly used structure for the representation and analysis of relational and ontological knowledge. In particular, the analysis of these requires a decomposition of a large and high-dimensional lattice into a set of understandably large parts. With the present work we propose /ordinal motifs/ as analytical units of meaning. We study these ordinal substructures (or standard scales) through (full) scale-measures of formal contexts from the field of formal concept analysis. We show that the underlying decision problems are NP-complete and provide results on how one can incrementally identify ordinal motifs to save computational effort. Accompanying our theoretical results, we demonstrate how ordinal motifs can be leveraged to retrieve basic meaning from a medium sized ordinal data set.
  

• 1.

  Budde, K.B., Rellstab, C., Heuertz, M., Gugerli, F., Hanika, T., Verdú, M., Pausas, J.G., González-Martínez, S.C.: Divergent selection in a Mediterranean pine on local spatial scales. Journal of Ecology. n/a, (2023). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14231.

  URLBibTeXEndNoteDOI

  Abstract The effects of selection on an organism's genome are hard to detect on small spatial scales, as gene flow can swamp signatures of local adaptation. Therefore, most genome scans to detect signatures of environmental selection are performed on large spatial scales; however, divergent selection on the local scale (e.g. between contrasting soil conditions) has also been demonstrated, in particular for herbaceous plants. Here, we hypothesised that in topographically complex landscapes, microenvironment variability is strong enough to leave a selective footprint in the genomes of long-lived organisms. To test this, we investigated paired south- versus north-facing Pinus pinaster stands on the local scale, with trees growing in close vicinity (≤820 m distance between paired south- and north-facing stands), in a Mediterranean mountain area. While trees on north-facing slopes experience less radiation, trees on south-facing slopes suffer from especially harsh conditions, particularly during the dry summer season. Two outlier analyses consistently revealed five putatively adaptive loci (out of 4034), in candidate genes two of which encoded non-synonymous substitutions. Additionally, one locus showed consistent allele frequency differences in all three stand pairs indicating divergent selection despite high gene flow on the local scale. Permutation tests demonstrated that our findings were robust. Functional annotation of these candidate genes revealed biological functions related to abiotic stress response, such as water availability, in other plant species. Synthesis. Our study highlights how divergent selection in heterogeneous microenvironments shapes and maintains the functional genetic variation within populations of long-lived forest tree species, being the first to focus on adaptive genetic divergence between south- and north-facing slopes within continuous forest stands. This is especially relevant in the current context of climate change, as this variation is at the base of plant population responses to future climate.

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  author = {Budde, Katharina B. and Rellstab, Christian and Heuertz, Myriam and Gugerli, Felix and Hanika, Tom and Verdú, Miguel and Pausas, Juli G. and González-Martínez, Santiago C.},
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  %0 Journal Article
  %1 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14231
  %A Budde, Katharina B.
  %A Rellstab, Christian
  %A Heuertz, Myriam
  %A Gugerli, Felix
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %A Verdú, Miguel
  %A Pausas, Juli G.
  %A González-Martínez, Santiago C.
  %D 2023
  %J Journal of Ecology
  %N n/a
  %R https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14231
  %T Divergent selection in a Mediterranean pine on local spatial scales
  %U https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.14231
  %V n/a
  %X Abstract The effects of selection on an organism's genome are hard to detect on small spatial scales, as gene flow can swamp signatures of local adaptation. Therefore, most genome scans to detect signatures of environmental selection are performed on large spatial scales; however, divergent selection on the local scale (e.g. between contrasting soil conditions) has also been demonstrated, in particular for herbaceous plants. Here, we hypothesised that in topographically complex landscapes, microenvironment variability is strong enough to leave a selective footprint in the genomes of long-lived organisms. To test this, we investigated paired south- versus north-facing Pinus pinaster stands on the local scale, with trees growing in close vicinity (≤820 m distance between paired south- and north-facing stands), in a Mediterranean mountain area. While trees on north-facing slopes experience less radiation, trees on south-facing slopes suffer from especially harsh conditions, particularly during the dry summer season. Two outlier analyses consistently revealed five putatively adaptive loci (out of 4034), in candidate genes two of which encoded non-synonymous substitutions. Additionally, one locus showed consistent allele frequency differences in all three stand pairs indicating divergent selection despite high gene flow on the local scale. Permutation tests demonstrated that our findings were robust. Functional annotation of these candidate genes revealed biological functions related to abiotic stress response, such as water availability, in other plant species. Synthesis. Our study highlights how divergent selection in heterogeneous microenvironments shapes and maintains the functional genetic variation within populations of long-lived forest tree species, being the first to focus on adaptive genetic divergence between south- and north-facing slopes within continuous forest stands. This is especially relevant in the current context of climate change, as this variation is at the base of plant population responses to future climate.
  

• 1.

  Koyda, M., Stumme, G.: Factorizing Lattices by Interval Relations. Int. J. Approx. Reason. 157, 70–87 (2023).

  URLBibTeXEndNote

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  author = {Koyda, Maren and Stumme, Gerd},
  journal = {Int. J. Approx. Reason.},
  keywords = 2023,
  pages = {70-87},
  title = {Factorizing Lattices by Interval Relations},
  volume = 157,
  year = 2023
  }
  

  %0 Journal Article
  %1 koyda2023factorizing
  %A Koyda, Maren
  %A Stumme, Gerd
  %D 2023
  %J Int. J. Approx. Reason.
  %P 70-87
  %T Factorizing Lattices by Interval Relations
  %U http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/ijar/ijar157.html#KoydaS23
  %V 157
  

• 1.

  Dürrschnabel, D., Hanika, T., Stumme, G.: Drawing Order Diagrams Through Two-Dimension Extension. Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. 27, 783–802 (2023). https://doi.org/10.7155/jgaa.00645.

  URLBibTeXEndNoteDOI

  @article{drrschnabel2023drawing,
  author = {Dürrschnabel, Dominik and Hanika, Tom and Stumme, Gerd},
  journal = {Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications},
  keywords = {linear_extension},
  number = 9,
  pages = {783–802},
  publisher = {Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications},
  title = {Drawing Order Diagrams Through Two-Dimension Extension},
  volume = 27,
  year = 2023
  }
  

  %0 Journal Article
  %1 drrschnabel2023drawing
  %A Dürrschnabel, Dominik
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %A Stumme, Gerd
  %D 2023
  %I Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
  %J Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
  %N 9
  %P 783–802
  %R 10.7155/jgaa.00645
  %T Drawing Order Diagrams Through Two-Dimension Extension
  %U http://dx.doi.org/10.7155/jgaa.00645
  %V 27
  

• 1.

  Schäfermeier, B., Hirth, J., Hanika, T.: Research Topic Flows in Co-Authorship Networks. Scientometrics. 128, 5051–5078 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04529-w.

  BibTeXEndNoteDOI

  In scientometrics, scientific collaboration is often analyzed by means of co-authorships. An aspect which is often overlooked and more difficult to quantify is the flow of expertise between authors from different research topics, which is an important part of scientific progress. With the Topic Flow Network (TFN) we propose a graph structure for the analysis of research topic flows between scientific authors and their respective research fields. Based on a multi-graph and a topic model, our proposed network structure accounts for intratopic as well as intertopic flows. Our method requires for the construction of a TFN solely a corpus of publications (i.e., author and abstract information). From this, research topics are discovered automatically through non-negative matrix factorization. The thereof derived TFN allows for the application of social network analysis techniques, such as common metrics and community detection. Most importantly, it allows for the analysis of intertopic flows on a large, macroscopic scale, i.e., between research topic, as well as on a microscopic scale, i.e., between certain sets of authors. We demonstrate the utility of TFNs by applying our method to two comprehensive corpora of altogether 20 Mio. publications spanning more than 60 years of research in the fields computer science and mathematics. Our results give evidence that TFNs are suitable, e.g., for the analysis of topical communities, the discovery of important authors in different fields, and, most notably, the analysis of intertopic flows, i.e., the transfer of topical expertise. Besides that, our method opens new directions for future research, such as the investigation of influence relationships between research fields.

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  %1 schafermeier2022research
  %A Schäfermeier, Bastian
  %A Hirth, Johannes
  %A Hanika, Tom
  %D 2023
  %J Scientometrics
  %N 9
  %P 5051--5078
  %R 10.1007/s11192-022-04529-w
  %T Research Topic Flows in Co-Authorship Networks
  %V 128
  %X In scientometrics, scientific collaboration is often analyzed by means of co-authorships. An aspect which is often overlooked and more difficult to quantify is the flow of expertise between authors from different research topics, which is an important part of scientific progress. With the Topic Flow Network (TFN) we propose a graph structure for the analysis of research topic flows between scientific authors and their respective research fields. Based on a multi-graph and a topic model, our proposed network structure accounts for intratopic as well as intertopic flows. Our method requires for the construction of a TFN solely a corpus of publications (i.e., author and abstract information). From this, research topics are discovered automatically through non-negative matrix factorization. The thereof derived TFN allows for the application of social network analysis techniques, such as common metrics and community detection. Most importantly, it allows for the analysis of intertopic flows on a large, macroscopic scale, i.e., between research topic, as well as on a microscopic scale, i.e., between certain sets of authors. We demonstrate the utility of TFNs by applying our method to two comprehensive corpora of altogether 20 Mio. publications spanning more than 60 years of research in the fields computer science and mathematics. Our results give evidence that TFNs are suitable, e.g., for the analysis of topical communities, the discovery of important authors in different fields, and, most notably, the analysis of intertopic flows, i.e., the transfer of topical expertise. Besides that, our method opens new directions for future research, such as the investigation of influence relationships between research fields.
  

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  Stubbemann, M., Stumme, G.: The Mont Blanc of Twitter: Identifying Hierarchies of Outstanding Peaks in Social Networks. In: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track - European Conference, {ECML} {PKDD} 2023, Turin, Italy, September 18-22, 2023, Proceedings, Part {III}. pp. 177–192. Springer (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43418-1\_11.

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  Stubbemann, M., Hanika, T., Schneider, F.M.: Intrinsic Dimension for Large-Scale Geometric Learning. Transactions on Machine Learning Research. (2023).

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  author = {Stubbemann, Maximilian and Hanika, Tom and Schneider, Friedrich Martin},
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  Felde, M., Koyda, M.: Interval-dismantling for lattices. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 159, 108931 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2023.108931.

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  Dismantling allows for the removal of elements from a poset, or in our case lattice, without disturbing the remaining structure. In this paper we have extended the notion of dismantling by single elements to the dismantling by intervals in a lattice. We utilize theory from Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to show that lattices dismantled by intervals correspond to closed subrelations in the respective formal context, and that there exists a unique core with respect to dismantling by intervals. Furthermore, we show that dismantling intervals can be identified directly in the formal context utilizing a characterization via arrow relations and provide an algorithm to compute all dismantling intervals.

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  Felde, M., Stumme, G.: Interactive collaborative exploration using incomplete contexts. Data & Knowledge Engineering. 143, 102104 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2022.102104.

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  Stubbemann, M., Hille, T., Hanika, T.: Selecting Features by their Resilience to the Curse of Dimensionality. (2023).

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